Thursday, June 6, 2013

The sidekick perhaps? You know that character who
isn’t the hero (and may not even be in every installment or episode)?

How about that side dish you have to be reminded to
order while you’re thinking about your main entre? The garlic mash or rice pilaf that was but an afterthought, it stays on the side before being
scrapped, scraped away (because the side is for refuse…)

I'd like to propose that Toronto retires the term
"sidewalk" and replaces it with the more intentional "walkway."

Follow the link above, check out the entire report - notice that there is not a single mention of Toronto in the report, at all. It's utterly un-noteworthy. It's been said "love me or hate me, but don't be indifferent" and that's exactly what Toronto is here - reflective of its tepid, insipid mediocrity. That's sad enough...but it gets worse...Toronto's trend over the last five years?

Heading into the downtown core to work and
participate as a productive member of society?

Below is GO Transit's morning rush schedule for the westbound Lakeshore East GO Train, with my scribbles highlighting what I think is an issue.

6x less service to 416 commuters than to 905ers? (and it's actually more than 6x less, because 5 of those 6 rides available from Pickering are express).C'mon, GO Transit, you can't do better than that?

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

While the numbers are hard
to see on this image, what does jump out quite clearly is the balanced use of transportation modes in downtown Toronto,
and the gross imbalance outside downtown.

If subways are not going to
lace across the entire GTA (as a real transit system should), then the bus and
light rail system and service, in lieu of subways, must be competitively
good at moving lots of people quickly, in order to reduce dependence on
cars - and the problems created by that dependence (pollution, poorer health, etc.) - outside the downtown area.